Gina Vanegas, Ph.D.
Consultant & Speaker
About
Dr. Gina Vanegas is an experienced speaker, consultant and qualitative researcher who is passionate about supporting organizations in their quest to create healthy and inclusive work environments while maximizing enterprise value. She enables organizations to intentionally establish healthy and inclusive environments and program impact through her expertise in the areas of assessment & evaluation, engagement, social justice, and psychology. Her methodology utilizes scientific principles in an approachable way that provide concrete solutions.
Gina is passionate about amplifying the voices of individuals not typically heard through the use of inclusive approaches to data gathering. She has extensive training and experience utilizing qualitative methodologies in ways that are empowering to individuals who participate in the process.
Dr. Vanegas holds a Ph.D., in Counseling Psychology from University of California, Santa Barbara. As a scholar, she has co- authored several publications and presented her research on access & utilization patterns of social services among underserved communities at various professional conferences including the American Psychological Association, the National Latinx Psychological Association, and the Interamerican Congress of Psychology.
In the public sector, Gina helps organizations strategically allocate their resources and attract funding by better conveying the impactful work through data. In the corporate arena, she utilizes her expertise in qualitative data analysis and social justice to help organizations improve their workplace culture. She also leverages her education and expertise working with the Latinx community to share impactful information with audiences about the rich diversity that exists among the Latinx community, cultural values and norms, and access & utilization patterns of the Latinx community in social services.